Phaius tetragonus (Thouars) Rchb.f. 1855

Anther Drawing Photo by © Rogier van Vugt and Reunion Orchid Page

Common Name The Rectangular Phaius [refers to the pseduobulb]

Flower Size

Found in Reunion as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a fan of linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, several to many flowered inflroescence with flowers that never quite open.

Synonyms Broughtonia tetragona (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; *Epidendrum tetragonum Thouars 1822; Limodorum tetragonum (Thouars) A.Rich. 1828; Pesomeria tetragona (Thouars) Lindl. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Epidednrum tetragonum drawing fide;

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